Daylight Saving Time possibly permanent 11/2023

The only time Americans really care about the daylight saving time change is when we’re anticipating having to change our clocks.


That’s not just my opinion; I can prove it. Each fall and late each winter, searches for “daylight saving time” spike as people start to wonder when they need to either spring forward or fall back.

You’ll notice that there’s been a big spike in interest this particular late winter. That’s in part because the Google search data for this week aren’t yet complete, but it’s mostly because the Senate just unanimously passed legislation that would make the daylight saving time change permanent.

In other words, if this bill is signed into law, you won’t have to fall back next November, or ever again.

Well, until the law is almost inevitably rescinded.

We tend to think about daylight saving time as giving us more sunlight in the evening hours, which we think because it does.

But we don’t think about the converse of that very much: that when there’s no daylight saving time, we have more sunlight in the morning.

On Sunday, daylight saving went into effect, meaning that last week and for a few months before that we were operating in standard time. When you would get up for work or school in early January right after the Sun had come up — that was standard time.
And without standard time, you would have been waking up in darkness.


We can visualize this. Enter your Zip code (or any other Zip code) below to see the general sunrise and sunset times for that part of the country in 2022. Then click the checkbox to turn on permanent daylight saving time. Notice what happens to those winter mornings……..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...t-daylight-saving-time-may-not-be-that-great/